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Leadership should be born out of the understandingof the needs of those who would be affected by it. ~Marian Anderson

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It is followers who definethe leader. Without them, success is up to chance. ~Thomas Kohntopp

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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talkthe language of the visionary and the idealist. ~Eric Hoffer

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Do not follow where thepath may lead. Go insteadwhere there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The very essence of leadership is its purpose. And the purpose of leadership is to accomplish a task. That is what leadership does–andwhat it does is more important than what it is or how it works. ~Colonel Dandridge M. Malone

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Nearly all men can standadversity, but if you wantto test a man’s character, give him power. ~Abraham Lincoln

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Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people.Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. ~Ross Perot

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Leadership is understanding people andinvolving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure. ~Admiral Arleigh A. Burke

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Never mistake knowledgefor wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ~Sandra Carey

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In calm waters manycaptains are able. It is in a tempest when true leadership emerges. ~Thomas Kohntopp

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I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphonyorchestra. But I don’t think that’squite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation. ~Warren Bennis

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A new leader has to be able tochange an organization that is dreamless, soulless andvisionless … someone’s got to make a wake up call. ~Warren Bennis

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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.The last is to say thank you. ~Max DePree

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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. Theleader leads, and the boss drives. ~Theodore Roosevelt

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The real leader has no need to lead – he iscontent to point the way. ~Henry Miller

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocallythe major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. ~John Kenneth Galbraith

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The best example ofleadership is leadership by example. ~Jerry McClain

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Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. ~Mary D. Poole

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The quality of a leader isreflected in the standards they set for themselves. ~Ray Kroc

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To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone. ~Harry Truman

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more,do more and become more, you are a leader. ~John Quincy Adams

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The final test of a leader isthat he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on. ~Walter Lippman

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Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don’t fall in line with people who don’t respect us and who we don’t believe have our best interests atheart. We are willing to follow leaders, butonly to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst. ~Rachel Maddow